Curtain hanger or support.



PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

J. I. MOODY.

GURTAIN HANGER OR SUPPORT.

AirLIoA'Tmiv FILED NOV. 19. 1906.

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PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

J. I. M00051. I CURTAIN HANGER 0R SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 19. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTQE JOHN I. MCCOY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HARRY HAMILTON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratented. May '7, 1907.

Application filed November 19,1906. Serial No. 344,171.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN I. MCCOY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCurtain Hangers or Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved curtain hanger orsupport which may be swung down into such a position that a personstanding on the floor may drape the curtain upon the pole and which maybe readily swung up to operative position after the curtain has beendraped, and a further object of the invention is to provide an improvedconstruction of curtain support or hanger of this character which may bereadily extended both laterally and longitudi nally so as to accommodatethe device for windows of different sizes.

With this and other objects in view as will more fully appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions,and arrangements of the parts hereinafter described and particularlypointed out in the appended claims.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof andalso to acquire a.

knowledge of the details of construction of the means for efiec ting theresult, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a face view of the window having our improved curtain hangeror support applied thereto and with the device shown in elevatedposition; Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the curtain support lowered;Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the sectional cross bar of thedevice with its clamping sleeve; and, Fig. 4 is a detail perspectiveview of one of the extensible standards.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the side sills of awindow frame to which my improved device is applied, and 2 designatesthe two swinging standards of my device which are constructed insections 3 and 4-. designed to overlap each other and each provided witha yoke plate 5 extending gether at their free ends by means of a crossbar 8 which is preferably mortised in one ofthe sections of thestandards and secured thereto by screws or similar fastening de vices,and said cross bar is also constructed in sections 9 and 10, as shown,the sections extending toward each other and in aline ment therewith,and the inwardly extending ends of the two sections 9 and 10 are mountedto slide in a sleeve 11 common to both. Set screws 12 are mounted in thesleeve 11 and are adapted to impinge against the sections 9 and 10 ofthe cross bar so as to hold the section in the desired distance acrossthe window frame.

By the means above described, the swinging frame constituted by thestandards 2 and the cross bar 8 may be extended both longitudinally andlaterally according to the size of the window to which the device is tobe applied.

Shade or curtain brackets 13 are secured to the freeends of therespective swinging standards 2 and project outwardly therefrom and arearranged to support the curtain pole 14. Screw eyes or similar attachingdevices 15 are secured to the respective standards at the free ends ofthe same and chains 16 or similar flexible members are secured at oneend to the respective screw eyes and at their other ends to anyconvenient portion of the window frame so as to limit the downwardly andoutwardly swinging movement of the standards.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, it will be understood that whenever it is desired to drape acurtain upon a pole, the standards 2 with their cross bars 8 are swungoutwardly and downwardly in convenient relation to the floor, being heldin such position by the said flexible members and then a person maysaid. sections by means of tie bolts 23.

readily drape a curtain over the pole Without the necessity of using achair or step-ladder for this purpose.

To raise the device after the curtain has been draped on the pole and tomaintain the device in its normal elevated position, the sleeve 11 thatconnects the two sections of the cross bar 8 is provided with aforwardly extending apertured ear 17 to which one end of the cord orcable 18 is secured, and said. cable extends over a sheave or pulley 19at the top of the window frame, and preferably.

s'ult, I preferably employ two pairs of arms 21 that are mortised asindicated at 2 and are designed to fit the sections 9 and 10, as shown,and to embrace and be clampedr 1to 1e ordinary brackets 24, abovereferred to, may be attached to the front arm of each pair, as shown inthe drawings, by means of screws or any desired fastening means.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

An adjustable curtain support, comprising standards each of which isconstructed in overlapping extensible sections, means for holding saidsections at different extensions, said standards being adapted to behinged at one end to the side bars of a window frame, curtain bracketssecured to the free ends of said standards, a cross bar constructed inextensible sections which are connected to the standards, respectively,a connecting sleeve encircling the inner ends of both sections of thecross bar, set screws mounted in said connecting sleeve and adapted toimpinge against the respective sections of the cross bar, said sleevebeing-provided with an apertured ear, a cord secured at one end of saidear and adapted to pull the cross bar upwardly, and flexible limitingmembers connected at one end to the free ends of the standards and attheir upper ends to the window frame and designed to limit the outwardlyand downwardly swinging 'movement of the standards, as and for thepurpose set forth. 4

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN I. MCCOY. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

C. F. GREATHAUSER, M. H. ENGLAND.

